The current environment of political violence is untenable.  It is destroying us, destroying the democratic foundations of our republic, turning even the most mild-mannered among us into something we don’t want to be.  If it continues … well, let’s just say it cannot continue.  I turn to Max Boot, writing for The Washington Post, to assess and analyze where this incitement is coming from, and to destroy those false equivalences that are being so glibly put forth.

Don’t blame ‘both sides.’ The right is driving political violence.

By Max Boot

30 October 2022

It should not be controversial to say that America has a major problem with right-wing political violence. The evidence continues to accumulate — yet the GOP continues to deny responsibility for this horrifying trend.

On Friday, a man enflamed by right-wing conspiracy theories (including QAnon) entered the…